Is there anything new in canXpek.com?

There are hundreds of job sites. There are many career advisers. What the heck canXpek do differently?

It is a platform, and independent platform, a transparent system where the services of career advisers are used by both candidates that are looking for a job and companies that want to fill their vacancies. Candidates get a chance to meet and take advice from the best in the industry and then get ranked by them. Companies can get a way to cut the time and money required to do recruitment. The platform gives a way to rank or rate both candidates and mentors. Candidates are rated by the career advisers for theirs skills, attitude,etc. Career advisories are rated by companies for their ability to provide the company with the right candidates.

The whole system is independent. It does not support any particular career adviser. Anybody can join the platform , provide their services and get ranked by the companies. Candidates have wide choice to select among the career advisers. Companies also have the freedom to select the career adviser with whom they want to work.

It is transparent as all transactions are registered. A candidate profile will look something like this.

1) When was the first meeting with the adviser? What ranking was given and what advises were given.

2) When was the second meeting. Is there any improvement in the rank? Is the candidate a fast learner?

3) How many type of career advisers did the candidates meet and what was his ranking in each these cases.

Companies can ask another career adviser to take an interview of the shortlisted candidates before they provide an offer to them.

Resumes are lies

When you invite somebody to come and stay in your house you are probably taking a big risk. They can play havoc in your house. They can destroy everything. But it could be the other way too, they can bring a lot of opportunities, they can change your life.

Recruitment is a very difficult process. Bringing a new person  to the company can be risky but it can also open  new opportunities.  How do we know what monster is coming to our home?  Resumes are the first indication. But are they only true lies?

A whole industry thrives on getting people recruited to good companies. It is like virus manufacturing factories. They want to blind you and make you admit a monster into your home. Companies spend a lot of money trying to stop them, all those money that they could have been used for their real business.  Every one of us is spending our money to promote this "war".

It is time that we address this pain. It is time that we disrupt this whole Resume manufacturing business. CanXpek is still in beta, but I am running a whole campaign through Facebook. 

https://www.facebook.com/CanXpek?ref=hl

Is it a product that is capable enough on taking on these lies?  

Put the cart before the horse

My friend called me "Do you know any body with Xyz programming skills?"

You called me at the right time, I am about to meet a young man who is looking for a job.

"What is Xyz sir? They taught us Abc"

But the demand for that is almost over. How did you choose that?

"A lot of people are getting very high salary, so everybody says learn Abc"

Is there any training institute teaching Xyz?  

"None"

And the industry need hundreds of trained people in  6 months. A lot of systems are getting replaced. 

How can we create training institutions that can make money by knowing the actual demand and not by cheating students? 

CanXpek will be your resource to do this. Let us create online courses because it is impossible to get trained people to teach. That is why training institutes have to use trainees from previous batches to teach students .  With the help of online courses and online collaborative projects we can create a set of skilled people in months.

All training institutions who are not after quick bucks are welcome, let us do this together.

Are you interested in making some quick bucks?

What goals should drive a mentor?   Is it all about making quick money? Do we need to be answerable about the final outcome?

CanXpek will be a place where mentors, academicians and  training institutes  meet companies and candidates. The key role will be played by the Mentor.

The mentors need to have long term goal, they have to build their profile. Mentors should not be acting like street vendors that sells pills and medicine. They should act more like good doctors. They should be able to identify the disease,  prescribe medicine and  see that the patient is cured. They cannot do a disappearing act.  Our mentors give advice with a promise.

That is why we in canXpek believe that one should build their profile. Offering free advice is a a good way to start. The free advice does not mean that you have no promise to keep.  If the candidate follows your advice then he has to ultimately enter the industry. We will be continuously monitoring this and will give you a higher rating based on the feedback from candidates and the from the industry.

The number people who had successfully entered the industry through your mentoring will be a part of your profile.   We will also have trustworthiness rating. A higher rating do mean that you are more successful than others in keeping your promises. We recommend people to deal with Advisers of higher rating, but we do not prevent anybody from dealing with Advisers of lower rating or no rating. We also take action based on the complaints that we receive. You could be banned  or your rating could be lowered from high trustworthiness to low trustworthiness if the complaints are proved to be right.

Will canXpek help offshoring?

Are you small business looking for offshoring your work? Do you want to employ a few people who can work from home or  a small office? Are you not sure how to evaluate their skills? Do you get a lot of fake resumes?  Our Experts/career advisers can help you get trusted skills. You can choose highly rated experts from our list and ask them to provide you people with specified skills. We believe in complete transparency.  You will have ebay type rating of our experts as well as candidates. If you are not happy your money will be returned.

Did we successfully confused you about canXpek?

Are you confused of canXpek?  Go ahead and blame me. All I know is to try again and again. And here is some more explanations.

Who is the best people to give you a career advice? This should be definitely the people working in the industry, is it not? Right now., the difficulty is this. How am I going to meet such people? Where should I hunt? That is where canXpek come handy. We maintain a list of people who are ready to help you. We may not be able to remove all the hurdles on your way, but we will show you a path. We also promise to show you a transparent path and not a hidden one.   It does not matter whether you are in a metropolitan city or in a remote village, you can request for a talk with an expert. We just connect both of you and then leave it you when and where you want to meet.  Sometimes the expert may not be ready to meet you straightaway. In that case he will specify what you should do to have a meeting arranged with him. For example he can say that you need to meet a few other people before he will give audience to you. Even when he turns down your request  he will have to tell you why he cannot. We are continuously monitoring the work of all our career advisers, You can always complain to us about anyone. Any career adviser who is not able to fulfill their promises will be removed or black-listed.

How many times people had told you the reasons why you are not selected for a job?  Not many? Well that is also an issue that we are trying to solve. The career adviser will have  to tell you the exact reasons for not selecting you for the job.  They are acting as a bridge between you and the job. They are suppose to give you a chance to improve or make changes in your career path. They are responsible to find you a job or tell you the exact reasons why they cannot .

A lot of people are working on bridging the gap between education and the industry. People have suggested and brought out a lot of solutions like finishing schools.  Probably the best way is to integrate the industry and the education, but it is not happening. Meanwhile a lot of new changes are coming to education too. Online leaning has become a new reality. Peer group help has been a part of industry for a long time.  We are trying to bring all these solutions to your doorstep using career advisers.

What should you do after you getting your dream job? What else, go ahead and join us as our next career adviser. You know the path already, give a chance to others too. Career advising need not be free but then the choice is yours.

Still confused?  The best way to understand any thing new is to start using it.  You will be given a chance to use it free of cost. How much time? Well, may be forever. It all depends on how you are going to contribute towards the evolution of the product as well as success of it. 

Three scenarios of mentoring

Scenario one : This is a mentor initiated scenario.  In this case mentors decide to form a team. We will have set of guidelines for the team constitution. Every team will have an entrepreneur to make sure that the team is focused on industry needs.  A candidate will have to talk to different members before his skills are rated. The team may meet together before giving the candidate an advice. 

Scenario two : This is a candidate initiated one. Candidate can request an appointment with a mentor. A mentor may accept the request or will ask another mentor to talk to him before approving his request. For example the mentor may be a senior person in industry and he wants to filter the candidates. 

Scenario three : This is a company initiated one. The company may send a request to a mentor  asking him to supply candidates with a set of skills. In turn the mentor may send candidates from his list or will start another interview session to filter candidates. 

CanXpek : Next step in Outsourcing?

Are you becoming a virtual training center? Instead do you want to get trained, mentored and tested candidate who can work from day one?   We are giving you the next step in saving money and focusing on your key business function.  CanXpek is a solution that can take away the pains of not only training fresh candidates but also a major part of the pains of recruitment, like advertisement , shortlisting, interviews, tests and then the long wait for the candidate to become productive.

Outsourcing is all about leaving those things that are not your strength to somebody who are the best. You are not a training institute, are you? You are not good at identifying the weakness and strengths of people, you just want to work with them. Leave that hassle to us, we know how to take care of it.  You can also save your recruitment costs  since we have a mechanism to give you the right candidate at the right time. 

Is there exploitation in IT field?

This incident happened when I was with "X" company. He was an excellent programmer.  I trusted him to get the work done much more than his colleagues.  I noticed that he is coming in a scooter while most of his colleagues have a car. 

"Do you think you can get to the office faster by a scooter?" I asked him. 

"Yes, in the heavy traffic scooter is faster". He said

"What car do you own?"

"I do not have a car, with my salary no bank is ready to give me a loan"

"But why? I thought you may be getting more than your colleagues".

"No, they all have this **** degree, I have a few back papers"

I was surprised and saddened to hear this. I decided to confront the management. 

" Well, he cannot go anywhere, nobody will take him because he has not cleared his papers"

" But that is stupid, such a brilliant fellow, why do you pay more to the people who cannot even do half of what he can."

Do you think you are discriminated because you do not have stupid degree? Come to canXpek, we know where the opportunity is. We will find you a place where you will be paid according to your work and skill and not by counting the degrees.

FAQ : Candidates

When you are offered a job by a big corporation in campus selection, there is something that you need to be careful.  They do not distinguish you from all those hundreds that are being selected. What will happen to your special skills and your individuality? That get ignored because for them you are one of the hundred "resources". You are part of a big army of working ants. Is that what you want in your life? What will happen to that special talents that you have? Does anybody bother about it? 

In canXpek you can select your mentor, you can select your job and you can also select the company that you want to work with. We will show you the way to get there, we will share the resources that you can use to train yourself for the job. 

We will continuously mentor you until you are ready for the job. Our mentors are monitored for their effectiveness. They are rated  by the companies as well as the candidates. Our mentors are expected to give you appointment with time and date. You will not be waiting for hours to see them. If you are ready to put the hard work to get your dream job then we will make sure that you achieve your goals. 

FAQ: HR Agencies

HR agencies can improve their credibility by giving an appropriate candidate to companies. They should join an Expert team to evaluate and mentor candidates. They cam make use of the experts in the team to evaluate candidate for particular skills.

FAQ : Training institute

You can join a expert team to support and evaluate candidates. The expert team can make use of your facility to train people.

FAQ SMEs

How much time are you taking to recruit a skilled person? Recruitment is a time consuming process. First you have to advertise, then you have to sort the resume. Then come interviews, tests and the shortlist. This will consume your time and money. It will also be not useful when you want someone urgently. CanXpek cut short this time delay, you can save your time and money.

Do you compromise on quality of new recruit? It is not easy to find a right candidate for a post. A number of posts are not filled because you are not able to get the right people. CanXpek can help you in locating the right skills  very fast.

Is training cost bugging you? For big companies training cost is not an issue, but for smaller ones it is an issue. Now overcome that by recruiting trained candidates using canXpek.

Do you want to recruit  somebody with different domain of knowledge?  Assume that i do not know Oracle, but I have requirement to recruit a Oracle expert. It is easy now. Look into the expert list in canXpek, select someone within your budget, ask him to send you people that he recommends.

FAQ : Startups

Important : In CanXpek we use terms like  expert, mentor, adviser with almost same meaning.

What benefit do I have? Startups finds it very difficult to retain employees. They are one group that spends a lot of time in training  fresh graduates and at the end loose the money and effort. CanXpek will keep the training out of your loop.

Does this help me be an entrepreneur? You are taking a big risk in your life. Your income will touch zero. This will help you earn some income with total control on your extra time.

Will I be able to recruit people using this? Yes, absolutely. More over you can join this as an adviser, help candidates and recruit those who are the best.

Will I save some money, Yes. You have zero advertisement cost and almost zero recruitment cost.

FAQ - Advisers

Important : In CanXpek we use terms like  expert, mentor, adviser with almost same meaning.

Am I too young to be an expert?Information technology is a fast changing sector. Learning never ends. Since the technology is always young, you do not need years of practice to start a work. That is the reason why it belongs to young people.

Am I too old to be an expert? Today's Information technology is a vast field too. It is growing in all directions. Nobody can master it fully. Years of experience gives an overall picture. This why old people like me also can survive here.

Who is an expert ? If you are already exposed to this filed you can be an expert. This will make anybody  with even one month experience an expert. What you need to have is a mind to help others and an exposure to the field.

Why should one become a Career adviser?  Do you want to help others and in turn make some extra income? This is a great career which you can pursue independently all time. As long as you are able to speak to people this should give you a means for living. There is no age bar. Are you 80? You are still young to be part of canXpek. Are you just 20? You are old enough to be an adviser in canXpek.

What should I do? Do you have a long years of experience in the field? Then form a team. Are you too young? Then join a team.

From where can I get fresh candidate to train or advise?  canXpek will be marketed to young people through colleges, and media. We expect a lot of people to join us and they will be looking for an adviser to help them get a job.

What is canXpek?

Are you looking for a job? Are you planning your future career? Our career advisers can help you.

Are you looking to help others? Please join us as career advisers/experts. Spend a fraction of your time. Offer either paid or free service.

Are you looking for a candidate with specific skills? Our experts/career advisers can help you in locating the right candidate.

Every industry needs good talents, the opportunities are there everywhere.  At the same time there are thousands of people with good talent waiting to get into the field. How do we bridge the gap? How do we remove the misconception in the mind of people and lead them to the right path so that they can also get into the industry? 

There is a way. It is nothing new, they existed for a long time and they had helped many to achieve their goals. They are experts in the field and they  do career advising. They were not organized, there was no specific place to look for them. You may not be able to reach them until you have the right connections.

Our new initiative is trying to address this issue. We will have a list mentors in every field who are ready to mentor people either free of cost or on payment. Mentors act as a bridge between you and the industry. Both of them will benefit from it and can save money and time.   You only have to register with us, we will send you the list of experts in the field of your dream career.  If they are not  registered with us then we will contact you as soon as they register. We will be migrating to a web application soon. Then you will have more powers. We will empower you.